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No one can take us out of the hands of the Good Shepherd - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.In what sense are these qualities that Jesus speaks about here good news to you? Do you see these qualities reflected in your life? How is the Lord encouraging you to grow in your ability to establish profound relationships with him and with others?

Should faith always make sense? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How has the Lord purified your faith? Is He calling you to a deeper faith in him, to trust in him, to accept his teachings? How have you handled rejection?

Why does Jesus say we cannot have life unless we eat his flesh? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What are the hidden aspects of the Eucharist that Jesus wants you to rediscover today? What are the needs and desires in your soul that only this food can satisfy? What are the thoughts and feelings of Christ that the Holy Spirit wants you to receive? Or, to put it another way, what action or moment in the life of Christ would you like to connect with through the Eucharist?

“Mannas” that are not enough - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What are those daily “mannas” you go for? How has the Father been drawing you to Jesus? In what ways has your relationship with Christ become life-giving?

How could the crowd not believe if they had seen? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How has your faith grown over time? What steps of faith is the Lord inviting you to take? What do you find encouraging in Christ's faithfulness?

The life of Jesus is the bread of life - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Was there a time in which God sustained your life, as He protected Israel in the desert? How could you grasp this idea: that Jesus has become the sustenance, the one who restores you to your true identity? What aspects of Jesus' life speak of that to you?

Jesus blended thoughtfulness and sternness - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What do you find intriguing and thought-provoking in Jesus' responses? What do those responses reveal about the mystery of the heart of Jesus? In what ways do you think that Jesus would challenge you to seek higher things?

The apparition of Christ at the Sea of Tiberias - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Can you recognize Christ in the journey of your life, and maybe in more recent events and circumstances? Imagine Jesus asks you that triple question: Do you love me? What is He expecting from you? What would you reply?

Jesus will return to us by dwelling in our souls - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.

The pedagogy of desire - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Why does the Lord want to involve his disciples in distributing his gifts? What are the natural blessings that may result from people being drawn to him? What are the higher gifts He wants us to discover through those natural blessings?

Why is Jesus a contested figure? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Have you discovered that logic of the Trinity, so different from the logic of the world, when you entered the Body of Christ? Have you had to battle for your faith in contentious situations? What have you learned through those experiences? What steps you've taken have led you to discover that God is trustworthy?

Why is there condemnation, if God loves his creation? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.When have you experienced God's love for you most clearly? Do you believe in God's love for you and for the world? Why do you think God made such a bold and compassionate move: to manifest his love in sending us his Son? What are the implications of the way in which God guides the world, allowing humanity to judge for themselves on which side they want to be, whether in the light or in darkness?

What does Jesus mean by being born of the Spirit? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How would your life be different, if you hadn't been born from above? Have you experienced the signs of this new life in the Spirit? Have you noticed the effects that meditating on Scripture and receiving the Sacraments has on you?

Actual graces that lead to being born of Spirit – Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Can you relate this to your own journey of faith? Have you seen the progression of graces that has led you to grow as a disciple of Christ? Do you find that your journey has some points of connection with Nicodemus, or with the questions he had?

What was Thomas doubting exactly? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How do you respond to the fact that Christ places such high expectations on us? What is the mission He is entrusting you with? What are the implications of being sent as a representative of Christ in your own vocation? What would be the implications if we were never trusted with any significant mission?

Why could the disciples doubt the risen Christ? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Do you recognize some of these perplexities and doubts in your own heart? What resonates with you in today's gospel? With which of the characters there do you identify? What step of faith is the Lord inviting you to take?

The apparition at the Lake of Tiberias - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How does this passage remind you of what Jesus has done in your own life? What do you find especially inspiring in Christ's example of friendship? How can you imitate him in this aspect? What is the Lord telling you about how stay consistent through changes in mood?

What the resurrection accounts teach us about the dynamics of the spiritual life - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What is significant to you in the way Jesus acted in this passage? Have you received signs from God that caused that blending of joy and shock? What changed in your spiritual life when it went from a set of practices to following a living person?

The apparition to the disciples going to Emmaus - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How do you relate to the particular trial of these disciples? How does this passage resonate with your own faith journey? How is the Lord encouraging you to imitate him in helping others reignite their faith?

Why did Jesus ask Mary not to hold on to him? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How can you seek Christ, as Mary Magdalene did? What does it mean for you to seek him? Is it possible that Christ has been showing that He is close to you in new ways, in ways that are different from what you expected?

How could they feel fear and joy at the same time? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What has the Lord done, what has the Lord shown you, so that you can be overjoyed? What prompts you to feel fear? What do Jesus' words “do not be afraid” mean for you, in practical terms? Where are you focusing your gaze? On that which God can do even through our human frailty? Or on what the powers of this world can do?

New life in the resurrection - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What are those glimpses that help you anticipate something of what life in the resurrection is like? What signs in your life point to the grace of the resurrection?

The purification that the Passion operates in us - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for the reading of the Passion, or here for the Easter Vigil readings.

The freedom Christ manifested in his Passion - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What are the things that threaten your freedom in Christ? What is Jesus inviting you to do, so that He can set you free?

The washing of the disciples' feet - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Why do you think Jesus chose this gesture to symbolize his life? What do you need to allow Jesus to purify in you?  What is most significant to you about Christ's love? How is He asking you to imitate that love?

How could Judas betray Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What can you learn about the dynamics of sin in the story of Judas? What did Jesus do to address those growing roots of sin? Are there any tendencies or thoughts that Jesus would want you to address in your life, so as to stop the spread of sin in your soul?

Sins of weakness vs. deliberate sins - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What difference do you discover in this gospel between sins of weakness and deliberate sins? What strategies can you learn from Christ on how to fight these different kinds of temptation?

The anointing of Jesus in Bethany - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Why does the Lord value actions like those of Mary? What generous gestures is the Lord inspiring you to offer him? When you feel resistance to those generous offerings, where does it come from? How can you unite your heart to the Passion of Christ in this Holy Week?

Why did Jesus accept being acclaimed as Messiah on Palm Sunday? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Why did Jesus act the way He did when entering Jerusalem? What is your experience of the changes that Christ can generate in people's lives? Has the novelty that Christ brought to your life awakened opposition at times? Just as Christ waited for the right time to manifest his kingship, what would be the prudent way for you to manifest what God has done in your life?

Reactions to the resurrection of Lazarus - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Do you see yourself reflected in some of these reactions to the Lord's miracles? Are the voices of fear rising above other important factors in your decisions? Is there anything that God is inviting you to do to manifest his light, even when that could be met with opposition?

How Jesus confronts human hardness of heart - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.When you hear Jesus responding in this way to those who didn't trust him, can you imagine the Lord reasoning with you along similar lines? What would He say to you?

The roots of unbelief: a distorted idea of God - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What's your experience of that life made of communion with the Father that Jesus speaks of? What are those distorted images of God that could tempt us to displace the living God from our hearts? How does the word of Christ provide a corrective for that temptation?

A deeper conversion: receiving the heart of children - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What do you find most striking in the freedom and identity of Christ? Does this gospel help you detect any roots of sin in your heart? What is Jesus asking you to do, so you can live in greater freedom?

The problem of reading Jesus in a political sense - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What do you find significant about Jesus' revelation of who He is and about his coming from the Father? What may be blocking your capacity to listen to God? How can you break free?

On right judgment and the failure of consensus - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How has your moral judgment been healed and improved since you began to be clearly guided by Christ? How would Jesus guide you to avoid both extremes of relativism and harshness?

The perfect balance of Christ's mercy - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.With which character of this story do you identify – the woman, the Pharisees, Jesus? Place yourself under the gaze of Christ in this meditation. What does the Lord see in you? What does He say to you? And what would He want to teach you on how to judge sin in a way that doesn't condemn and destroy, but actually helps bring others to life?

The battle that rages inside the soul - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Can you identify the voices that arise in your reason and in your sensibility in both camps, for Jesus and against him, for what He says and against what He says? How does the Holy Spirit argue with you, to bring you to side with Christ?

The attempt to explain who Jesus is in a human way - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Are there situations now in which Jesus is inviting you to act with courage, and yet, to do so shrewdly, with a strategy in mind? What aspects of your life – or in the life of believers – do you sense can only be explained as coming from God?

What made it difficult for them to believe in Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Why did God want to provide you with sufficient witnesses that would strengthen your faith? What have been those different testimonies that impacted your life? Is something acting as an obstacle to your faith? What are subtle ways of choosing the glory of this world over the glory of God?

How can Jesus be always at work? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How would you assess your daily activities, according to this gospel? When does your work feel alienating? And when do you sense you can do things in Christ, in keeping with your identity? To what extent are you doing things that give life to others? Are you radiating the light of Christ in the world, so that those called to belong to him may be judged worthy to inherit eternal life?

“Do you want to be well?” - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What gifts have you received from Christ that enabled you to do better, but also led you to new responsibilities and new challenges? What are those challenges, and how are you responding to them? Have you been faithful to the salvation and the graces that the Lord has given you? Why is that faithfulness necessary to keep doing well?

The transformation of a powerful man - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What changed in this royal official? What was the inner process of coming to faith like? How did he see his own life before and after? How do you imagine his daily life being different? And how does this resonate with you? Why does Jesus want you to reflect on this today?

The parable of the prodigal son - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.In what way do you resemble the younger son, or the older one? Have you ever experienced the Father's generous love the way they did? What has inspired you, and inspires you still, to want to live in the Father's house?

Pride, humility, and the standard of morality - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How does pride manifest itself in my own heart? What is the Lord inviting me to do about it? What is the standard of morality that I normally apply to myself? What is unique and inspiring in Christ's humility?

Why was the scribe asking Jesus about something he knew? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Think of the activities and projects that occupy most of your mental time. How are those connected with love of God and love of neighbor? What would Jesus encourage you to do, so that your capacity to love God and others may grow?

How Jesus exposes the strategies of the evil one - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Do you find in your thoughts, feelings, or reactions, any agreement with the lies and accusations of the Evil One? How could someone fall for those lies? What brings home to you the evidence of God's goodness? In what ways is Jesus asking you to side with him more clearly?

Why does Jesus say He hadn't come to abolish the Law? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Can you verify the benefit of good rules in your own life? Are there particular areas in which you don't need many rules, because your heart has grown strong? Is the Lord encouraging you to go back to certain basic rules of Christian life?

The mystery of God's calling and human freedom - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.What is the Lord teaching you through Mary's vocation? What aspects of your own life have you come to know through callings that came to you from outside? In which cases would the Lord want your life to be more connected to him and to others, so as to overcome individualism?

Why did people of Nazareth reject Jesus? - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.Could any of the difficulties the people of Nazareth experienced when it came to accepting Christ reflect your own difficulties? What do you find inspiring in Jesus' response to rejection, and what is He encouraging you to learn from him in this regard?

The need for ongoing conversion - Fr. Lucas Laborde. Click here for today's readings.How is Jesus inviting you to work in your ongoing conversion? What may be causing you to be distracted and not notice your own spiritual condition? What are the fruits that the Lord would want to find in you? Have you had good gardeners to encourage you, or have you been prompted to be a good gardener for others?